[rst]

Google has a reputation for hiring people with stellar qualifications, and putting them in fairly mundane jobs for which they appear overqualified. See here, for example: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-...

(Norvig is most certainly not one of these, BTW; he's doing research similar to what he'd be doing in academia, with more resources.)

[danso]

Ah, thanks...As soon as I wrote "Norvig" I immediately regretted it, but he was the first transcends-even-Google person I could think of. Obviously he doesn't count if he's given a high ceiling to reach for (which it seems he has)